The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 95 of 125
Perinatal means every shock to the body
Belatedly, I saw the full extent of what Grof had meant by “perinatal” experience: not just what I, and I suspect many other people who read his early books, tend to reduce exclusively to the birth trauma, but all the other shocks inflicted upon and recorded by the physical body. I couldn’t honestly say, since what happened to me didn’t free anything resembling verifiable “memories” to consciousness. What did happen, however, was that more typically psychedelic material started to reappear in the later sessions of the series.